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Dear dictators: don’t lecture the US on how to treat its people
If you’ve been watching the news, you would think the United States is a third world nation on the verge…
Children of the revolution
Some steal their luxury leisure goods, but others take their leisure by the luxury of right, and all of it…
Mayhem in Manhattan
It’s important — and easy — to tell the difference between protesters and looters. Just as New York should have…
The government isn’t taking the risk of contact tracing fraud seriously
Experts have a get-out clause of which politicians can only dream when they are speaking from the podium at press briefings.…
This riot is brought to you by Nike
In Chicago last weekend 82 people were shot, 22 of them fatally. Between May 2019 and late May 2020, homicide…
The double standards of the London protestors
So now we know. All the things said about Dominic Cummings – that he shattered the lockdown, that he thinks…
A statement from the chairman of The Spectator
In common with thousands of companies up and down the country, The Spectator magazine group availed itself of government funds…
War footing: can Trump turn left-wing protests into victory?
Don’t cross Donald Trump. Trump originally ran for the presidency because Barack Obama mocked him at the White House Correspondents’…
Pity the shopkeepers
Small businesses in America have been hit by a devastating double whammy. Stores that managed to survive the economic shutdown…
America’s riots could be contagious
It’s kind of amazing. For weeks we have been arguing about the minute details of viral transmission. Can you be…
The Washington war zone
Washington, DC Last night, I took my usual evening stroll in Friendship Heights, only to realize that it could have…
The lethal combination of Brexit and Covid
The combination of Covid-19 and Brexit is a double whammy. The first was a haymaker that hit Britain from nowhere.…
Republicans should now reclaim their strong history on civil rights
If you want a perfect example of how the progressive mindset betrays African Americans, look at the now viral video…
The Covid chasm between East and West
Sweden has received quite a kicking for its decision to avoid a lockdown: look at its death rate, critics say,…
The growing rebellion against quarantine for UK arrivals
The government’s most unpopular policy on its own benches is its plan to make almost everyone arriving in this country…
There is no justice in looting
‘Never deny, seldom affirm, always distinguish.’ We should dust off that old Jesuit adage in this season of American rioting.…
Antifa’s American insurgency
We are witnessing glimmers of the full insurrection the far-left has been working toward for decades. The killing of George…
Could Keir Starmer become a populist politician?
It has been a remarkable week. Boris Johnson’s refusal to sack Dominic Cummings for what the vast majority of Britons…
End the lockdown. Stop the riots
These riots are not just about pent up frustration over police brutality and the murder of George Floyd under the…
Antifa’s white privilege
There is no right to burn down your neighborhood, but it’s always an option. Freedom means choice, and real freedom…
The roots of riot
That LEGO set or Louis Vuitton bag you’ve always wanted can be yours free if you just wait for the…
The German Courts have just made Brexit talks easier
The old division of leaver and remainer will not serve the best interests of the country as we go forward.…
Immunity to coronavirus may be far more widespread than thought
Two weeks ago I wrote hereabout a study by the La Jolla Institute for Immunology in California, which found that…
Boris Johnson’s majority is not as big as it first appeared
The last week has shown that Boris Johnson’s majority of 80 isn’t as big as it first appeared, I say…
America’s immune system is failing
‘This American carnage stops right here and stops right now,’ said President Donald Trump in his inauguration speech on January…
